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Thousands of online banking customers have had their accounts drained by a sophisticated new computer virus, internet security Experts say the virus represents a new level of sophistication
Around £675,000 was taken from a "large UK financial institution" over...
Justin Bieber's Twitter page has become the target of an internet joke.
A public vote on the Canadian singer's My World Tour page asked users which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on.
This spurred users of imageboard website 4Chan to...
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor ESET have uncovered a simple tool automating the creation of botnets that can be controlled from Twitter. The botnet clients can be commanded to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks or install additional malware on the compromised...
I have a couple of Sony Sx 46 IC recorders that I need to connect via USB port to my Windows 7 laptop. Sony supplies drivers for XP and Vista but has shown no interest in supplying them for Windows 7 64 bit. :(
Are there any software utilities that can somehow make either the XP or Vista driver...
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Computer Security Advances don't just come from malicious attacks that are subsequently patched by software programmers. They are also the result of more genial attempts to hack into commonly used apps. Sometimes people even throw hacking competitions to see who can...
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Ive had my PC for 5 weeks. I have Windows 7. Yesterday, after instaling/applying new updates a prompt came up on the screen after I booted up. It was a prompt, asking me to select which network I wanted to connect a Home Group to. I selected Public of course, as I am the only PC in my home...
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Some of you might have seen today's story by Gregg Keizer of our sister publication Computerworld headlined "Link Removed due to 404 Error" and may have asked the same question I asked.
Two minutes?
Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil broke into the current edition of the Web browser...
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(Dutch researcher explains his strategy for outwitting Microsoft defense mechanisms to win $ 10,000)
Peter Vreugdenhil of the Netherlands bypasses DEP & ASLER to bring down Microsoft's Browser. And another German Researcher who wouldn't give his full name, called Nils found a...
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We handle confidential personal or business data almost every day.
In order to to avoid being hacked, I am trying to figure out how to protect our data.
Encryptng data is an easy answer but repeated encrytion and decryption of data everyday would be inconvenient chores.
I am wondering how you...
Criminal Hacker "Iceman" gets 13 years. Former "Security Researcher- Max Butler" has been sentenced to 13 years for hacking into a financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers.
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Support was discontinued after windows xp. However, windows vista had found updated drivers during auto-update. With windows 7 there are no drivers found.
Any help would be appreciated. If some guru would like to help by hacking the windows xp .ini files, I could send the installation file to you.
I'm sure this has been covered in someway shape or form.... however, my searches yielded nothing...
I know you geniuses can give me a some what quick solution... I have a HP pc with two 500g HDDs... I've been having a great deal a trouble with hacking... I found scripts and viruses...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/fatality-ultimate-fighters-no-match-for-live-internet-piracy.ars
Major League Baseball, ESPN, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship explained to Congress last week that live Internet piracy is hurting their businesses, and that the DMCA just...
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I have an old 2001 desktop that actually is quite a powerhouse (well in its day it certainly was), and Vista works fine with it (the driver issues are now sussed, all thanks to compatibility mode). But there's only one slight problem.
The graphics rating in the WEI is 1.9, just 0.1 off from...
Hi everybody. getting the strangest crash!! let me describe in detail.
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First off all I switch on my pc, then wait for it to aquire network...
Microsoft’s plan to “sandbox†Office documents in the next version of its application suite is an admission that the company cannot keep hackers from exploiting file format bugs, a security analyst said on July 23. “What’s been happening is that Office has lots of...
Running windows 7 64 bit, I notice now and then my mouse is moving all over sometimes selecting things at random. Almost seems like I am been hacked, but I doubt it. I figured the mouse might need updated drivers. When on microsofts website (wireless intellimouse explorer 2.0) found the...